Would love to see how they solve the problem of third party markets for twitter followers.
Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
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#102Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
#103I think the boost comes from ICO-related ads. Especially as Facebook just banned them.
Wow all these posts and youre the only person to mention this. I find that really strange.
Of course twitter has just landed a dumptruck load of cryptocurrency ad revenue.
Now the question is will they ban it for the same reasons facebook did given how key it is to profitability?
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a different perspective: Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy. "Controversy" is just another name for clashes of opinions that have occurred since the beginning of humankind and will likely continue to occur until the extinction of our species. These clashes occur within discursive spaces, and Twitter is one such space. This is why I'm bullish on Twitter. It's a space for con…
Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy. When in human history have public spheres like Twitter existed? The public sphere up until about 50 years ago for most people was strictly local. You could not broadcast dumb narcissistic ignorance for free to millions of people. It wasn't possible. Twitter is not good at what it does. It does not elevate public discourse. It's the equivalent of…
The tweet is in fact excellent, and the phenomenon predates Trump : stock markets will go down on good macro news in fear of interest rate hikes. This has been going on for at least 5 yrs, if not 10.
This fact has nothing to do with Trump.
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#105Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…
> Twitter loves Trump.
A number of Twitter holdouts that I know finally created accounts this year. While they don't explicitly credit Trump for it, I think the constant barrage in the news made them feel like they were missing out.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they able to check your card balance?
No; but twitter will likely get a better conversion rate if they tell people what it is they are buying and the cost, prior to handing over their payment details
Seems like this way they filter out the looky-loos and narrow the gap between seeing the price and making a purchase.
Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
#107Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…
> The problem, or _a_ problem, is that people can only handle so much controversy. They have lives to lead. You're so spot on. You know how everyone says, "Seinfeld is a show about nothing!" It wasn't about nothing, but what did make it different is that the characters never changed. They didn't have these huge arcs and defining life moments. They just went about their lives and we watched. People say "it was about n…
> But that was why it was popular -- because most people's lives, most of the times, are not filled with drama.
A lot of the story arcs involved situations that people loved to gossip about. Like the woman who wouldn't wear a bra, or the whole "regifter" episode.
Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy. When in human history have public spheres like Twitter existed? The public sphere up until about 50 years ago for most people was strictly local. You could not broadcast dumb narcissistic ignorance for free to millions of people. It wasn't possible. Twitter is not good at what it does. It does not elevate public discourse. It's the equivalent of…
The tweet is in fact excellent, and the phenomenon predates Trump : stock markets will go down on good macro news in fear of interest rate hikes. This has been going on for at least 5 yrs, if not 10. This fact has nothing to do with Trump.
Was meaning to link to this one:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/96127083356920217...
I figured the tens of thousands of tweets of people saying hateful things to each other was evidence enough. That thread will do, too.
Re: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tweet is in fact excellent, and the phenomenon predates Trump : stock markets will go down on good macro news in fear of interest rate hikes. This has been going on for at least 5 yrs, if not 10. This fact has nothing to do with Trump.
Was meaning to link to this one: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/96127083356920217... I figured the tens of thousands of tweets of people saying hateful things to each other was evidence enough. That thread will do, too.
Touche, and I did not mean to deny your evidence of thousands of hateful tweets.
I was just pointing out Trump said nothing controversial in the aforementioned tweet.
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#110Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…
Reminds me of local news. "Could this drink be killing you? Watch at 10!" After a while it seems people have ditched local news save for weather. Now it's mostly "Will tomorrow polar vortex freeze your testicles? Watch tonight at 10"
Which is why they do "stay tuned" weather bits three or four times per newscast.